Posted By:
Matt"the companies also place greater emphasis on different aspects of the cards as well."
Jim - that is an incredibly important statement to these discussions. Each company has things they grade harsher or more leniently then the competitors. The most talked about is PSAs leniency regarding back PL. It is assumed oftentimes that a card with back PL shouldn't ever get more then a 3, but PSA clearly disagrees with that in their grading scale; it's not that the cards slip by the graders, they just use a different scale. I'd suggest glue residue on the back of a card as something that PSA grades more harshly then SGC. With PSA it's an automatic 2.